Born in 1934 in the small village of Chakiya in Baliya, Uttar Pradesh, the well known Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh came of poetic age in the Ajneya edited Teesra Saptak. His muse is suffused with the shades of the village and the warmth of love, the ...

Jyanpeeth awardee Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya took a sympathetic stand through his writings towards the movement, and he opposed the activities of State-sponsored terrorism.” Thakur has his reasons for not dealing with the subject in his writings yet.

... becoming a full-fledged regional station, the Guwahati station of AIR has flourished in the company of cultural and literary stalwarts of the State like Nabakanta Barua, Syed Abdul Malik, Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, Dr Bhupen Hazarika and many others.

“We have also plans to translate and print at least one to two books from Assam every year in Hindi,” he said, adding that works of Jnanpith winner late Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya and of Rita Choudhury are also likely to be part of the project.

She became the second Assamese to win the Jnanpith Award for Literature in 2000, after Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya who won the award 1979 for Mrityunjay. She turned down the Padma Shri in 2002, in the same year Rabindra Bharati University awarded ...

After Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, Mamoni Baideu is the second Jnanpith awardee from Assam. Not only has she penned some outstanding short stories and novels, Mamoni Baideu also took a brave initiative to bring the banned United Liberation Front of ...

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